Ecclesiastes 12:4 (CEV) The noisy grinding of grain will be shut out by your deaf ears, but even the song of a bird will keep you awake.
I love birds. We have two feeders and I keep a bird book handy to help me identify new species. I’d like to learn to identify birds by their call, too. Once I purchased a clock with birds on it. Every hour had a different bird pictured and on the hour that bird call would sound. The clock was defective. The birds weren’t supposed to sound during the nighttime hours. It would wake me up at 2am. I finally took out the batteries to that part. One night a mockingbird sang all night long outside our bedroom window. They have an amazing repertoire. They mimic what they hear and will even imitate car alarms and cats. A male may have 50 to 200 songs. And while they are imitating others, they take those tunes and make them their own. A mockingbird is one bird that I always know by its song.
Thomas a Kempis wrote the Christian classic book, The Imitation of Christ. We are encouraged to imitate our Master. Yet of course just like a mockingbird is not the bird it mimics, we are not Christ. We must take the ways of Christ and make them uniquely our own in community with one another. May others always know us as Christians by our song.
Gracious and Heavenly Father, we give you the praise today for the birds of air and the beauty they add to our lives. Like the mockingbird, help us to learn by listening. Help us to grow as Christians by hearing your Word. Help us to then share that word with others. In Christ’s name we pray. Amen.
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